What to Watch Right Now

In 1995, Emmylou Harris released "Wrecking Ball", which is considered to be her most experimental album. It featured songs by Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, and Neil Young. Harris and producer Daniel Lanois offer an inside look at the making of Emmylou's Grammy-winning album on a promotional VHS tape of the TV special, "Building the Wrecking Ball", which originally aired on PBS in December 1996.

The debut stand-up DVD of internationally acclaimed and award-winning comedian Daniel Sloss, recorded at the King's Theatre, Glasgow.

"Encounter Point" moves beyond sensational and canned images to tell the story of an Israeli settler, a Palestinian ex-prisoner, a bereaved Israeli mother and a wounded Palestinian bereaved brother who sacrifice their safety, public standing and homes in order to press for a grassroots movement for nonviolence and peace.

After the Russian Revolution, the Soviet authorities sought to exercise control over every aspect of social, political and cultural life, including Russia's national sport, football. Throughout the 20th Century, the football grounds of Eastern Europe became battlegrounds as ruthless politicians tried to use football to lend legitimacy to communist rule. In this film, footballers from Russia, Hungary and East Germany recall how the beautiful game was manipulated by ruthless communist leaders, and reveal how the careers of several great footballers from behind the Iron Curtain were destroyed simply because they refused to co-operate with the Eastern Bloc's most brutal totalitarian regimes. The central tale is of the George Best of Russian football, a seventeen-year-old slinky, skilled forward with a teddy boy haircut, Eduard Streltstov, who was the inventor of a back-heeled pass, still known as "The Russian Pelé", whose career was wrecked by the KGB.

A documentary about real divorce cases in Iran's tribunals.

Golden Globe winner Teri Hatcher hits the stage with some of the funniest women in comedy for a night of over-the-top, uninhibited stand-up. Starring no-holds-barred pros Carole Montgomery, Wendy Liebman, Leighann Lord, Monique Marvez and Marsha Warfield.

A live performance of Eddie Izzard's 2003 world tour, performed in front of an Eastbourne audience.

An intimate portrait of Labour politician Denis Healey by political journalist Michael Cockerill. Shown as an obituary and a tribute following his death at the age of 98 on 3 October 2015.

On a mild November weekend in 1872, Boston burned down. An otherwise insignificant spark in a downtown basement turned into a firestorm. Boston's great fire reduced the city's commercial center to sixty-five acres of rubble and ranks with the Chicago Fire of 1871 as one of the country's worst. Yet Boston averted Chicago's fate of 300 dead and 100,000 homeless with the heroic defense directed by John Damrell, Boston's Fire Chief. Against all odds, he saved the city's densely-populated neighborhoods from the Chicago-scale tornado of fire. Fires in the decade after the Civil War caused more urban destruction than the war itself did. After Portland burning, then Chicago, then Boston, the nation did not need another conflagration to make the case for fire prevention. It needed leadership. It needed someone who understood firefighting technologies, fire resistant buildings, and fire safety to persuasively influence moribund state and local governments. Elevated into national prominence by the 1872 fire, Damrell launched his crusade to stop cities from burning down. His vision, energy, skill, and dedication over the next thirty years would spare 20th century urban America, and countless thousands, from the flames that terrorized his times.

Confection (2003) is a delicious short film about a little girl who learns empathy from a pastry.

A team of Australian and Chinese scientists discover ancient human remains in a remote cave in South West China. The bones are unlike any living human or any ancient human known to science, yet they were alive at the same time as humans of our own kind. Do they represent a new human species?

Popeye is driving across country against Count Noah Count. He's hopelessly outmatched; the Count has a very powerful car, and Popeye's is barely running. And to top it off, the Count doesn't play fair.

Broadcast from the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C., this program contains live coverage of the dinner marking the fortieth anniversary of the B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation League. Highlights include the following: dramatic readings by Thelma Ritter, Rex Harrison, and Lilli Palmer; songs from Eddie Fisher, Jane Froman, William Warfield, and Ethel Merman; the introduction of broadcasting leaders David Sarnoff, Leonard Goldenson, and William Paley; comedy with Vivian Vance, William Frawley, Lucille Ball, and Desi Arnaz; breakthroughs in freedom with Jackie Robinson; spoken tributes by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein; Helen Hayes as Harriet Beecher Stowe, who speaks; and a speech by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, recipient of the League's Democratic Legacy Award. Eisenhower, speaking of his pride in America, stresses that there must be no weakening of the codes by which Americans live. He says that the rights to worship as we please and to meet our accusers face to face are rights all Americans must work to preserve.

Scientists discuss the possibility of reverse-engineering the DNA of modern birds to recreate dinosaur species, instead of cloning fragments of dinosaur DNA extracted from amber and other ancient fossils.